Judaism

The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies today.

The Jehuite Dynasty ruled more than ninety years (841-747 BCE) in the Kingdom of Israel, the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom.

The present volume contains papers delivered at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, held at the Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest, Hungary, 14-16 May, 2009.

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity.

This work examines the relationship of the speeches of Wisdom to one another and with the rest of Proverbs 1-9.

Ben Sira lived in an era when Hellenistic influences continued to spread in Palestine.

Papers in this volume were presented at the seventh international conference of the Socit dtudes Samaritaines held at the Reformed Theological Academy of Ppa, Hungary in July 1725, 2008.

In Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War David J.

Both Judaism and Christianity have authorized clergy, charged with fulfilling a multitude of tasks in their respective communities.

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance.

After a survey of recent approaches to the study of Paul's use of Scripture, the four main chapters explore the use of Isa.

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The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12-26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets - a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences.

As environmental destruction begins to seriously affect humans, it has become increasingly relevant to reflect on the essential elements of the Jewish and Christian theologies of creation.

Exile as Forced Migrations injects cutting edge studies on forced migrations (DIDPS, IDPs, Refugee studies), displacement and resettlement, and generational issues that mark the exilic period (6th century B.

Old Testament texts frequently offer a theological view of history.

The social and intellectual context of the material in the book of Proverbs has given rise to several proposals concerning the nature of the constituent compendia within the document as well as the function of the discourse as a whole.

Apart from Genesis, Tobit contains more information about marriage than any other biblical book.

This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879-1933).

This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics, as a correction for the current state of marginalisation of narrative in this discipline.

The 19th century saw the rise of Biblical Criticism in German universities, culminating in Wellhausen's radical revision of the history of biblical times and religion.

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This book investigates the relationship between cult and ethics in the book of Isaiah.

The book investigates Ben Sira's attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues.